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Richard Imlay letter to Thomas Rotch, Hartford, Conn, 1 mo 16, 1820

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B-102-19
Dear Friends Hartford Conn. 1 Mo 16, 1820
little did I expect when we last parted that
1820 would come before we met but thus is all things
in this State of Uncertainty and Changes you oft
times in looking back on years past and gone Remember
us and I can assure you amidst all the Changes of
time we have not forgotten you but oft have we
repeated a wish that your Happiness Might Increase
and the Cloude of tribulation pass from your Borders
but unto the Children of men suffering is appointed
the Cup you as well as us have had to drink and
altho hard indeed oft times hath it seemed yet let
us Remember that as apart of the greate family
that are by Creation liable and suffered to meet
and pass the Sea of Tribulation & Tryal we must
in duty Bow and Say Amen thy Will be done.
Such has been my situation since I last wrote
you I have never been able to say any thing that
would Communicate to your Minds any Tale of our
settlement since I left Trenton, or Situation so as you
could be informed with certainty. I continued in
Trenton Until 3 mo 1819 after my Business according
to the Lean on property improved by me for my
Establishment Expired. I was obliged to leave my business
which had in Consequence of the times become much ordered
and the Material Exhausted. I had a Mill which

B-102-19
Dear Friends Hartford Conn. 1 Mo 16, 1820
little did I expect when we last parted that
1820 would come before we met but thus is all things
in this State of Uncertainty and Changes you oft
times in looking back on years past and gone Remember
us and I can assure you amidst all the Changes of
time we have not forgotten you but oft have we
repeated a wish that your Happiness Might Increase
and the Cloude of tribulation pass from your Borders
but unto the Children of men suffering is appointed
the Cup you as well as us have had to drink and
altho hard indeed oft times hath it seemed yet let
us Remember that as apart of the greate family
that are by Creation liable and suffered to meet
and pass the Sea of Tribulation & Tryal we must
in duty Bow and Say Amen thy Will be done.
Such has been my situation since I last wrote
you I have never been able to say any thing that
would Communicate to your Minds any Tale of our
settlement since I left Trenton, or Situation so as you
could be informed with certainty. I continued in
Trenton Until 3 mo 1819 after my Business according
to the Lean on property improved by me for my
Establishment Expired. I was obliged to leave my business
which had in Consequence of the times become much ordered
and the Material Exhausted. I had a Mill which